good explanations from you...thats very true ....but still i hope that rahman could or should come out with something like pudhu vellai malai from roja if any of his future movies allowed him....another example will be mann chandre from connections which i really love to see it feature in some movie rather than going unnknown in an album.....i agree that many of his 90's songs bring out my memories at the time that particular song got realeased.... and i strongly believe that those songs that we didnt like much now ,we will love after few years from now which will bring out some memories that we had experienced now rather than really liking the songs now itself..... i rarely post msgs here...but for the past one week i know and realized that i got a bit emotianal in expressing my oppinions here...i dont want to say that i regret about it but at the same time i m not proud of though....to be honest i was very disturbed when i heard(maybe its just a rumours) that shankar is going to remake 3 idiots in tamil and that is with harris jeyaraj...that made me upset terribly the whole week even till now....now maybe u guys will understand why my posts are like that... but i m proud of u guys who really defended rahman well..thats how a rahman fan should be....some of u really explained to me very well...thanks to u guys....but roshan u said that "we need clown in the group or something like that" really made me upset...but now i have forgotten it bro thanks to ur post....no hard feelings ...apologise if my post disturbed some or hurt ur feelings guys...see archives for my old posts u will know that i m not a bad person thanks again.. --- On Sun, 8/22/10, Roshan <c.pix...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Roshan <c.pix...@gmail.com> Subject: [arr] Why the past songs are better To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, August 22, 2010, 5:00 PM A lot of our members have expressed their feelings that AR Rahman was better in his 90s. Though I don't agree with them I have my favorites from the past. Not just from Rahman. From all the composers, musicians and singers. But the fact is that it is not because the songs were better in the past. it is because we always hold on to our past. be it songs, incidents, falling in love, breakups, marraige functions, first job, college graduation, a great friend.. the whole life. We always think that past was somehow better. We are always worried about the future. don't we cherish memories from our childhood and teenage ? It is the same with songs. when we hear an old song, it triggers memories of incidents, people, happiness or sadness that we related to that particular song. Beatles' Yesterday is an absolute favorite of mine. there are plenty of great songs even better than that one. but it brings me back the memory of a great time had in Brunei when I got my first job there in 2003. That is when I started listening to international artistes often and on top of that I was in love. And, when I hear it now, it gives makes me feel like I have lost something but, in reality I haven't. I love Tanha Tanha from rangeela a lot. it is a great song, musically. But the reason I love it the most is because that is when I got my first portable cassette player (Videocon Walkman) along with a cassette of rangeela as a gift. I did my schooling in a hostel, and I became a popular kid because I had a walkman. lots of kids would come to our dormitory to listen to the songs. So, we put some money together and bought a speaker and placed it on top of a cardboard box with a hole in it, so the rest of the kids can hear it. I was so excited. because not only I got more friends, I was doing something with electronics stuff.. cutting the earphones and connecting the wires to the speaker, making the sound go louder with just one cardboard box with a hole! I felt like I was Einstein! now, when I hear that song.. it brings back memories of my friends, that cardboard box, that videocon walkman, and my great school and teachers. We all talk about how great the classics were. we regard RD Burman, Noushad, Ilaya Raja and the whole lot of great musicians as the best and some people even compare them with today's musicians and talk about how music has lost its soul. It hasn't lost any soul. it is because those people related to their most cherished memories when they hear their favorites. give today's music another 20 to 30 years and we will be talking about how great the 2010's music were. It is same for AR Rahman. the reason why some of you think that ar rahman created better music in 90s is because you were probably teenagers or children during that time and probably were having the greatest times of your life. there were lots of things happening, experiencing new things.. and probably ar rahman's music even helped you a lot at that time. and when you hear it now, you are taken back to that golden era of your life. try to understand that fact before saying ar rahman's music lost the soul. it only means that you have grown up, you have become more experienced, aged and wiser ( and probably grayer and fatter - no offense, just for fun.). get into the mindset of a teenager again and see if you all can enjoy the Kala Bandar and Jai Ho and Fiqraana and even Enthiran. I bet you will. sorry about the long post :) ----------------------------------- http://roshanravi.com http://ramblingsoul.com http://cssheaven.org
